The sage was determined to die.

It was within his expectations.

Ji Bai's not-so-great acting skills were on full display at this moment. He stood up from the ground with great strength and even reached out to brush the dust off his clothes.

"The battle is fierce." After a while, Ji Baifa made a strategic comment.

The crowd had completely fallen silent, chasing the yellow crystal like catfish.

Basically, the moment you touch it, your body instantly loses all its moisture, as if you've been sucked dry from a radish.

What they had in common was that their expressions as they died were extremely distorted, as if they had all become like the group of stone sculptures underwater.

Ji Bai watched all this from the sidelines, shaking his head and sighing from time to time. The scene before him was not unexpected... This Wenxin existed by absorbing pain, and the pain of anyone would become its nourishment, even if it was just a dummy.

Ji Bai sighed.

A thought flashed through his mind: Could this really be something she designed?

If not, then who could it be?

After a while, the catfish finally stopped fighting, and what should have been a bloody battle turned into an absurd silent play in Ji Bai's eyes.

He stood there with his arms crossed, the only spectator, calmly watching the village chief finally obtain the crystal, still clinging to his last breath.

He walked up to the other person, looked at their convulsing body, and even though he knew it was a fake, he still spoke:

"You should know that even if you get this... it's actually not very useful."

The old village chief's cloudy eyes suddenly cleared, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood, saying to him, "To obtain... the ability... to become a human..."

As soon as he finished speaking, he followed the crowd and turned into a withered human stem.

"What do you mean?"

Ji Bai stepped forward and picked up the crystal. The moment he touched it, the expected stinging sensation lessened considerably and suddenly became bearable.

"..." Ji Bai looked at the crystal, which had become increasingly round and lustrous. "Could this thing have eaten its fill?"

……

The old turtle sank into the water, and after a long period of healing, he finally opened his eyes again.

The moment he opened his eyes, his gaze sharpened as he stared at... a wisp of air.

conspiracy.

It was indeed a conspiracy.

The old tortoise gritted its teeth. Having seen many fragments of the literary heart, it was no wonder that this body, though merely a puppet, couldn't even hold onto a single fragment.

The only possibility is that he was set up.

Could that kid be in cahoots with that kid from the Ji family?

The old tortoise had this suspicion, and when he looked up, he saw the familiar figure again.

The man was also quite surprised to see him, and instinctively said, "Oh, you're still alive?"

The man clicked his tongue in amazement: "Long-lived breeds are truly extraordinary."

After saying that, she looked down at the yellow crystal lying in her hand and politely tossed it back to him again.

"Perfect, it's yours."

The muscle memory that had paralyzed his entire brain popped out uncontrollably, making him almost instinctively try to avoid it, but his slow body clearly couldn't keep up with his thoughts.

With a "smack," the thing struck his skull again with pinpoint accuracy.

After a while, Ji Bai looked at the scene before him with dissatisfaction. The turtle in front of him looked as if it had been electrocuted and was charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It would probably be difficult for it to open its eyes a third time for a while.

"You're so ugly, yet you pretend to be a turtle." He scoffed. "I knew you were human a long time ago."

After saying that, he turned and walked away to continue his stone carving work.